- ARD, James, died February 7th, 1863, age seventy-five years, buried in Elma Cemetery. [page 152]
- BRUNNER, August, who worked for the Ebenezer Society, was murdered this year at or near
the sawmill in Blossom, and his body was thrown into the millpond, No trace of the murderer was
ever obtained. see McHUGH, Cornelius, [Page 151]- CLARK, Elon, dies June 7th, 1856, and was buried in the Elma Cemetery. [Page 120]
- CLARK, Joseph F,. Early in the spring of 1854, Clark W. Hurd and Joseph F. Clark commenced
to build a sawmill on Pond Brook east of Clark's house and near the north line of lot 59.
Work was progressing favorably, when Clark was taken sick, and after a few days illness,
he died August 22d, 1854. [Page 117]- CLARK, Oliver H., died February 14th, 1853 . First burial in Elma Cemetery.[Page 114]
- DAVIS, Mrs. James, died May 17th, 1860, age fifty-one years---burial in Davis Cemetery
on Lot 36 of Mile Strip. [Page 146]- HURD, Allen J., son of Clark W. Hurd, who enlisted into the "Ellsworth Avengers," was wounded at the
Battle of Gettysburg, July 3rd, 1863 died in the hospital July 13th, age twenty-one years, five months;
burial; in Elma Village Cemetery. [152]- HURD, Mrs. Cyrus, died June 30th, 1853. This was the second burial in Elma Cemetery. [Page 115]
- LaGORE, ____, A Frenchman by the name of LaGore who lived on Lot 69
on the north side of the Bullis Road shot himself with a rifle.
He was sitting in a chair outside of the house when he placed the muzzle of the rifle
to his neck and with his toe pulled the trigger ----results: throat torn open causing instant death. [page 120]- LEE, Robert W., of Spring Brook, of 49th Regiment died at point Lookout, Maryland, February 10th, 1863,
burial in Spring Brook cemetery. [Page 152]- LEE, Zebina, died at Spring Brook April 4th, 1861,---burial in the Spring Brook Cemetery. [Page 149]
- LOUGEE, Norton B., who enlisted in the 49th Regiment, August 26th, 1861, died November 2, 1862,
age twenty-eight years, eight months, burial in Elma Cemetery [Page 152]- McHUGH, Cornelius, was murdered near Buffalo, January 5th, 1863. He was on his way home from the city
and when a little west of Plank Road house on the Aurora Plank Road, and near the present city line,
he was killed.. His murderer was not found, but a man by the name of Fogleman, who lived on Lot 70 on the
Bullis road in the Town of Elma, in a short time moved into Canada. It was reported that before he died,
he confessed that he murdered BRUNNER at blossom, McHUGH near Buffalo, and that he burned the saloon
at Smalltz corners on the Clinton street Road. This is only report. [Page 152]- MITCHELL, William, Joshua and William Mitchell built log houses and
settled on Lots 23 and 25 in 1832, where they lived and where William died,
January 26, 1836. Some of their family now live with John P. Cole on Lot 26. [Page 80]- MORRIS, Albert, the three year old son of William Morris was killed
while paying with several other boys on the bridge over the Creek on the Aurora plank road,
south of the Mouse Nest tavern by the team and wagon driven by Mr. Morey of Holland,
who was returning from Buffalo, and did not see the little boy.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. _____ Sanford of East Aurora,
and the burial in the Spring Brook Cemetery. [Page 198]- MORRIS, John, died at Spring Brook in 1859, age seventy-three years, burial in Spring Brook Cemetery.
[Page 144]- PATTENGILL, Hiram - trouble with a brother and a threatened lawsuit so worked on his mind that in March 1846,
he cut his throat with a razor, thus being the first suicide on Elma soil. [Page 47]- SHANE, Peter - In June 1851, at the raising of a barn on lot 72 now owned by Max Hornung,
the first bent was raised all right; but it was left without any stays, to stand alone until the next bend
and girts were in place, in order to fasten all together. While all hands were raising the second bent,
a light wind blew the first bent over against the second and as the men saw it coming
and realized their danger, a cry was raised to get out of the way, but the cry came to late.
Three men were caught. Peter Shane had his head cut off by being caught between the timbers;
one other man, name not now known, was so hurt that he died the next morning,
and another not known, died three months later. Too much whiskey was the real cause of the accident. [Page 111]- STANDART, John - who lived in a house an the south west corner of Lot 9,
- on the north side of Clinton Street Road, on July 7th, 1874, shot his wife with a revolver
and then cut his throat with a razor. [Page 210 ]- STANDART, Samantha - daughter of Mr. Mrs. George Standart, died July 15th 1849/
The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. George E.Havens, methodist preacher at Lancaster.
This was the first death of a white person and the first sermon
preached on the Lancaster part of the reservation. [Page 108]- WILBOR, Cryenus, Father of Mrs. J. B. Briggs, died September 12th, 1856.[Page 120]
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August 7-November 28.
History of the Town of Elma, Erie County, New York 1620 - 1901
author, Warren Jackman 1902
Chapter XIX, Deaths, Page 269 - 281
